pontoon
pontoon Lexical Profile
pontoon Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A flat-bottomed boat or hollow metal cylinder used with others to support a temporary bridge, floating dock, or recreational deck boat.
"We rented a large pontoon for the afternoon to cruise lazily across the calm lake."
Each of a pair of streamlined floats fitted to the underside of a seaplane to enable it to take off from and land on water.
"The pilot stepped carefully onto the seaplane's aluminum pontoon before mooring it to the dock."
British A card game closely resembling blackjack in which players try to acquire cards with a face value totaling twenty-one and no more.
"They passed the rainy evening playing several lively hands of pontoon around the kitchen table."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the late 16th century from French 'ponton', via Old French from Latin 'ponto' (meaning 'punt' or 'floating bridge'), a derivative of 'pons' ('bridge').